WTAF Ukraine Team is pleased to share the revival of traditional archery and welcomes you to “Archery Tradition” festival and competition

The festival takes place in the outdoor Museum of Traditional Architecture of Ukraine, where we will have the Tournament, the festival, and enjoy the surroundings of over half millenia into our past. Best of traditional national cuisine is on for catering. Participants are provided with free camping ground on Museum’s quarters, or we can help with finding accommodation per your requirements. We will be happy to meet you at the airport and take you to the camping site or your chosen accommodation.

***Stand shooting – is shooting at a static target from standard distances
(20-25-30-35 m). This is the easiest and the most common way to determine the level of the shooter (archer), it also is fundamental for working out the basic techniques of shooting with a traditional bow.
***Practical shooting (Field Archery, 3D Archery) – is a simulation of a real hunting, which must show the archer`s ability to shoot at unknown distances, from different angles and unusual shooting positions.
***Dynamic shooting – combines the diversity of intuitively shootings at moving targets, and also shooting and moving. The examples are the following types of shooting : shooting at a pendulum target, a windmill and “flu-flu” disks.
***Long range shooting – one of the ancient and historic kinds of shooting, used by archers in wartime. They include such discipline as: target shooting at 60 meters and more, Korean shooting at 90 and 150 m, Clout shooting, when you have to shoot a canopy in a given sector , flight shooting – firing at a maximum distance.

******Main provisions
After registration, participants will be divided into 4 groups, which will start simultaneously in 4 different stages, but all stages will be passed in turns. A team leader, writer and controller will be appointed for each group by organizers. The leader will be responsible for a group`s correct passage of the route and
the announcement of score points that should be written to the score cards by the writer, and a controller will confirm their authenticity.

-Compound bows are not allowed
-No limit for draw weight
-Sights, clickers and stabilizers are not allowed
-Saddle on the string is allowed
-Arrow shelves glued to the bow are allowed
-The rule concerns all the categories: no sighting marks on the inside of the upper limb, including any pictures and inscriptions. If any of such are present, the participant is required to cover them by non-transluscent tape to the end of the competition.

*****Bow classification:

*Class “Tradition” – bows made of natural materials which have the shape and form of historical analogies, but not necessarily exactly duplicate them. Wooden arrows with sports points; plastic nocks are allowed.

*Class “Modern Long Bow” – no limits for bow handle, a cut for arrow window no more than 1/2 the thickness of the bow is allowed. String must not touch the body of the bow in the stringed state, except fixing points (a notch). The length of the bow must
not be shorter than 150 cm for women and 160 for men in stringed form. Wooden arrows with sports points; plastic nocks are allowed.

*Class “Instinct (Hunter)” – bows, which were not included in the previous two categories, or bows with the arrows made of modern materials (carbon, aluminum, etc.).